History Anvilicious / VideoGames

* ''DragonAgeInquisition'' is basically a VerySpecialEpisode about LGBT characters turned into a video game. YMMV of course; given real world attitudes and practices, others think [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped the lack of subtlety is a good thing.]]

* Earlier in the series, we have the "rescue the [[JapaneseMythology Japanese gods]]" sidequest from ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'', which is really an extended beating-over-the-head with "Shinto good, Abrahamic religions bad." At least the freed gods join your party for putting up with it.

* Unsurprisingly, most of PETA's parody video games are about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the face. ''SuperChickSisters'' preaches the evils of KFC and UsefulNotes/McDonalds, ''VideoGame/CookingMama: Mama Kills Animals'' wants you to become vegan, ''VideoGame/SuperTanookiSkin2D'' makes its point about how skinning animals is wrong ([[SpaceWhaleAesop even if the skin isn't even from a real animal]]), and ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Black and Blue'' hates on animal cagefighting (also running into [[CriticalResearchFailure issues with canon]], much like ''Skin''). ''Super Tofu Boy'' became a victim of this when the creators of ''Super Meat Boy'' created an Anvilicious patch introducing Tofu Boy as an extremely weak JokeCharacter.

* ''DragonAgeInquisition'' is basically a VerySpecialEpisode about LGBT characters turned into a video game.

* In Civilization III, the ''minute'' you hit industrial and start building factories, orange pollution gets dumped all over, necessitating extra workers just to keep it cleaned up. And there's no way to stop it, even if the factories are destroyed somehow, until the 'green' constructions become available. Yes, pollution is bad and annoying. [[SarcasmMode Thank you.]]

* Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow and Aria of sorrow are pretty much screaming "Fate can be altered" with the whole Soma fighting with the whole idea he is the reincarnation of the "Dark Lord Dracula". Bonus points to the good end of Dawn Sorrow where Arikado (Alucard) blatently states "Don't worry Soma if the world needs a Dark Lord they'll come, you needn't be the one" speech...

* Unsurprisingly, most of PETA's parody video games are about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the face. ''SuperChickSisters'' preaches the evils of KFC and UsefulNotes/McDonalds, ''VideoGame/CookingMama: Mama Kills Animals'' wants you to become vegan, ''VideoGame/SuperTanookiSkin2D'' makes its point about how skinning animals is wrong ([[SpaceWhaleAesop even if the skin isn't even from a real animal]]), and ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Black and Blue'' hates on animal cagefighting (also running into [[CriticalResearchFailure issues with canon]], much like ''Skin'').

* ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders'' fits the bill with the kid pilot main character constantly complaining that killing is wrong and refusing to kill.

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfRebirth'' has about 40 hours of game - 5 of plot, 5 of KUREAAAAAAAAAA, 30 of people telling you that racism is bad.

* Not denying ''BrutalLegend'''s heavy handedness, but it's pretty much required for any American game in any way involved with traditional metal to take a slam at the modern variety. Note ''GuitarHero'', especially Metallica. (I ''knew'' there was a reason Eddie Riggs looks so much like Axel Steel...)

** Though this in itself comes to bite Leo in the ass when his [[spoiler:sparing ArchEnemy Viola]] results in [[spoiler:her returning the favor by shooting his love interest after a particularly WAFF scene, thereby forcing him back into the fight.]] Made even worse that [[spoiler:even when he tries to spare her a second time, she ends up getting knocked out of Antilia and drawn into Jupiter's gravity well, dying anyway.]] Either way, ''Zone of the Ender'''s theme seems to be about dispensing naivety and growing up in the heat of conflict (though this in itself is a traditional mecha anime theme).
** Leo's case isn't helped by the fact, as shown in the ''Idolo'' OVA, Viola [[spoiler:was pretty much dead anyway due to solar radiation fallout in her home sphere on Mars, while the (supposed) death of her LoveInterest Radium Lavans took away her will to live anyway. In fact, the whole reason she took part in the Antilia Raid was because she had a death wish, so Leo's restraint at killing her only infuriated her to no end.]]

** Given the villain's plot, you could interpret it a little more generously as "fixing racism by reversing it doesn't actually work".

** ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'': War is bad! Players who like war games are also bad!

* In ''VideoGame/Scribblenauts'' Unlimited, the whole "plot" turns out to be something like: "Bad things are bad. Good things are good. Now, in order to teach you to do good things, I will turn your little sister into stone and only free her when you have done enough good things."

* Unlike most racing games, Konami's ''Thrill Drive'' (not to mention its sequels) always reminds its players to drive safely in real life, from its marquees to even its loading screens and attract modes, over and over again. SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped, but still.

** Solid Snake smokes in many of the ''Franchise/MetalGear'' games, and it's frequently observed (by other characters as well as by in-game text) that this is bad and harmful to him. Even in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', where you can't advance through the game at one point if you don't smoke your cigarettes, you can watch your Stamina slowly decreasing the longer you keep smoking. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' Snake persists in his habit in spite of having obvious breathing difficulties; this culminates in a child snatching his cigarette away and lecturing him on how very bad his habit is.

** The ''Patriots'' in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' seem like an overly anvilicious comment on american foreign and domestic politics, but given that the game was released in November 2001, any similarities to the PATRIOT Act are [[HarsherInHindsight probably coincidental]].

* ''AgentUSA'': Television is brainwashing our population and turning them into zombies.

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